Fog Returns to the Capital

Chapter 131 Crossing the Boundary
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At first, Zhou Jinghuai just looked at Li Wu without saying anything, but then he spoke slowly and deliberately, "What if I marry you?"

"Lili, will you marry me?"

"What did you say?"

Li Wu stared at him in shock, as if she had heard something unbelievable.

But then, Zhou Jinghuai hugged her tightly, his voice so low that only she could hear, "You want a home, and I can give you one too."

"We can also get a marriage certificate."

"Break up with him, okay...?"

Li Wu heard a plea in his low, deep voice, almost a humble plea.

Never before seen.

Li Wu's heart skipped a beat.

But the next second, Li Wu suddenly pushed Zhou Jinghuai away and shouted at him incredulously, "Are you crazy?!"

A sense of absurdity even arose in Li Wu's heart, and she unconsciously took two steps back.

Zhou Jinghuai could tell that she was frightened.

But the next second he still grabbed her wrist, and, word by word, clearly uttered the first inappropriate thing he'd ever said in his life, "After you break up with him, we'll go to the civil affairs bureau to get our marriage certificate. How about that..."

The two were very close. Li Wu seemed to have never seen his eyes so closely and clearly before, nor had she ever seen such a pleading look in his eyes.

Furthermore, his tall and imposing figure stood before her, towering over her by a considerable margin. His imposing stature, standing before the slender and petite Li Wu, even made him appear somewhat subservient.

In the past, such a scenario would have been absolutely impossible for Zhou Jinghuai.

—He has always been incredibly noble and aloof.

But seeing Zhou Jinghuai like this...

Li Wu felt nothing but fear, a fear bordering on terror. She didn't even know what she was afraid of.

He instinctively tried to pull his hand away, muttering under his breath, "You're really sick, you should see a doctor..."

"You don't want to, do you?"

Zhou Jinghuai's subordinates, however, refused to relax their efforts in the slightest. Their deep voices carried an unspeakable self-mockery, "Seven years ago, I was eliminated, wasn't I?"

Zhou Jinghuai thought of someone.

Yet she dared not dwell on the details of her interactions with another person over the past seven years.

"Yes! We ended things seven years ago!"

Li Wu hadn't cried when she said she'd been wandering for over twenty years without a home. But now, tears welled up in her eyes. "Why should I have to marry you just because you want to?!"

“I already have someone I want to marry, Zhou Jinghuai.” Li Wu’s tears fell like pearls from a broken string, her voice choked with sobs. “We’re not meant to be together. We already proved that seven years ago. Someone like you, and someone like me… I’m not good enough for you. I don’t want to repeat the same mistake…”

“Besides,” Li Wu’s voice trembled slightly, “didn’t we agree on something back then?”

Upon hearing this, Zhou Jinghuai froze, as if a taboo had been touched upon deep within his heart.

It reminded him that he was no longer qualified.

What he couldn't say a few years ago, he brought up again now, which is already crossing the line.

After a long while, Zhou Jinghuai finally managed to speak, "Don't cry."

Li Wu lowered her eyes and did not respond.

Then, Li Wu heard Zhou Jinghuai slowly ask—

"Is he good to you?"

"very good."

Li Wu responded quickly, as if afraid that if she hesitated even for a second, her answer would contain a hint of falsehood.

After the words fell.

A long, deathly silence fell over the entire corridor.

I don't know how much time passed; maybe three or five minutes, maybe a century.

Li Wu kept her eyes down until she saw his footsteps disappear into the blind spot.

Silence returned to the surroundings, as if no one had ever been there.

Li Wu felt as if all her strength had been drained away, and she slowly slid down the wall, kneeling on the ground.

The dim light shone on her, casting an exceptionally long shadow on the wall, conveying an indescribable sense of silence.

After a long silence.

Footsteps gradually approached from ahead, growing louder and clearer in the quiet corridor.

"Didn't I just say that—"

Li Wu looked up, but the moment she saw the face of the man walking towards her, her words stopped abruptly.

After getting closer.

The tall, jade-like man slowly knelt down in front of Li Wu and gently placed the Freud Rose that she had left on the back seat beside her.

His voice was low and quiet.

"So, I'm just a good fit, right?"

(End of this chapter)